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Thursday, January 18, 2018

Four police departments look to cooperate

Four police departments look to cooperate

A few years ago the Regional Dispatch evolved and is in place at the Peru Police Station, supposedly because the initial proposal was to place a new bldg  to be constructed on the grounds of Illinois Valley Community College but then the state ran short of funding and everything was put on hold and dispatch continues in Peru.

Is that plan gone? What happened behind the scenes ? Is this part of the original regional center in Oglesby? Where are the details? I watched the WLPO video on FB and it was interesting to watch the demeanor of all the Mayors but really got no more details than the paper version. Facial expressions as always are interesting.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If anyone is interested the mayor and Mr. Vickrey will be giving an account of their China trip during Monday's council meeting. According to the agenda it will be presented at the beginning of the meeting so if you want to get the details of their trip you could hear them and leave if you don't want to stay for the rest of the meeting.

Anonymous said...

What form of account - financial, productive, personal etc.? Will there be a question and answer session? Hopefully their will be a large turnout of concerned citizens!

Anonymous said...


According to the newspaper account the plan would save 250 million over sixty years. I'd like to know who did that estimating. Most communities have a difficult time coming out ahead or even in their figures over the next three years. I believe Peru police are doing an excellent job now and worry about our coverage when others are doing the coverage.